Includes bibliographical references and index.

Front Matter / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Introduction / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Sigla and Abbreviations / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Rasis, De curis puerorum: The Latin Text / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Critical Edition of the Anonymous Hebrew Translation / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Critical Edition of the Translation by Bonfos / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- English Rendering of the Latin Translation / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Commentary on the Text of al-Rāzī / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Supplement / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Synopsis / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Glossary of Hebrew-Latin-English Terms / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Index Verborum to the Latin Text / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Indexes to the Hebrew Translations / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Index of Technical Terms and Materia Medica / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh -- Bibliography / Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh.

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The short Latin treatise De curis puerorum is the translation of a lost Arabic original attributed (perhaps mistakenly) to the famous al-Rāzī (Rhazes); one of the rare texts on pediatrics circulating in the Middle Ages, it was so popular that it was soon re-translated into Hebrew, not once but three times! Gerrit Bos and Michael McVaugh have edited the Latin and Hebrew texts, accompanying them with an English translation and a full commentary situating the original Arabic against the medical writings available to tenth-century Islam. The contents of the work range remarkably widely, covering skin diseases, eye and ear infections, teething, vomiting and diarrhea, constipation, worms, and bladder stones, among other things, outlining their causes, symptoms, and possible treatments.